Hybrid: 49580: AWS Cloud Platform Engineer at Reston, VA- Long Term-3 Days Onsite
Interview Process: There will be 3 rounds
• Round 1 - Virtual Phone screen 30mins
• Round 2 - In person (60mins)
• Round 3 - Final Virtual interview (30mins)
Licenses/Certifications
AWS Cloud certifications, minimum of One is required.
FinOps Certifications, minimum of One is required.
Qualifications
Seeking experienced and dynamic AWS Cloud Platform Engineer to provide hands-on technical expertise for supporting our AWS footprint, including Security and Guardrails.
As an AWS Cloud Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and integrating our cloud platform resources on Amazon Web Services (AWS). You will collaborate with a team of talented cloud engineers and technology teams to deliver scalable, reliable, and secure cloud solutions that support our company's growth and innovation.
Summary:
Minimum of 10years of IT experience of which at least 5 years must be in AWS Cloud Platform engineering and Administration.
Strong Leadership experience with driving Transformation initiatives
3-5 years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineering role
Experience with SRE principles and transformation
3+ years of experience with Containerization (Kubernetes), Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure etc.), DevOps tool chain (Ansible, Jenkins, Artifactory, bitbucket, etc.), and technical patterns (IaC, Automated Provisioning/Release, CI/CD, etc.)
Solid understanding of Software coding techniques and experience with full spectrum of Software engineering (Build, Integration, Test, Releasing and Deployment) leveraging Python.
Experience in Developing and/or challenging engineering solutions/practices and collaborating with peers within and outside of immediate team, including customers (Dev, Architects, Engineers)
Platform Engineering Lead with Hands -on Experience:
Building robust Middleware Environments
Previous Linux System administration is required.
Must have strong hands-on knowledge of AWS platform and services but not limited to VPC, Networking, Direct Connect, Subnets, NACLs, Security Groups, EC2, S3, IAM, ELBs, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, EKS etc.
Must Have Hands on current Implementation and Production level experience in AWS Cloud.
Hands on experience with Automation and Infrastructure Provisioning is a must –Our goal is to only provision infrastructure with Code, and Policy As Code.
Must be familiar with Terraform automation, Ansible playbooks, and Python code.
Experience with AWS Cloud Formation and CDK is required.
Must have hands on experience in writing Lambda functions preferably in Python (Boto3).
Must be well versed in writing Linux Bash scripts.
Minimum of One AWS certification is required.
Hands-on experience with Containerization and Amazon EKS is a big plus.
A great understanding of various DevOps toolchains, including Git/repo, Crucible, Jenkins etc.
Solid understanding and experience with a CI/CD tool chain.
